The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-27
REEFS IN rHEgR BoENEzs.
Freddie Fish and GeneraS Brindie Booth
Believe They are Destined 90 be Senators.


Believe They are Destined 90 be Senators.
TRENTON, Feb. &c. - (sPEcIAL) = Two
funny developments in the Senatorial
fight have been unearthed in Trenton
during the past week, which have caused
many ripple of laughter in the wide cor
ridors of the State House and the more
confined corridors of the hotels. These
developments DO not concern the hand-to-
hand struggle which is still being main
tanned between Ex-Governor Albeit and
General William j. Sewell, for that is a
matter of too stsrn reality for the crowd
that gathers here to laugh about, exceps,
perchance the hotel proprietNs, who
laugh at anything to be atfabIe to the
hordes that patronize their various hostel
ries. Neither do these Developments COZ
Germ the Bedle boom. But they Go have
bearing and a most ludicroas one on the
Senatorial question. One of these develop
ments is the possibility of Gen. Brindle. of
Gloucester, as ssdark horse" on the Re.
publican side. Ever since the Camden
s'Post" mentioned his name as a canard, as
a possible dark horse, this man has had
the Senatorial bee in his bonnet bigger
than q woodchuck. Lest Monday he came
to Trenton and took up his headquarters
in Room s of the Trenton House. His
Lieutenant, or Private Secretary, he sent
to board at some fourth-rate boarding.
house some distance from the hotel. The
General is reported to be rich, though
judging from the bad cigars he smokes
and the worse jig water he drinks,
one would Immediately conclude that
his means were very limited. Every
night in the week he is overrun
with callers, principally made up of the
"boys, who assist with eminent success
in swelling his head to almost alarming
proportions. The General is perfectly
sane, save possibly on this one question,
and on that no one has been found as yet
who will youch for his sanity. He is per-
sonally acquainted with very few, if any.
of the members or Senators, and almost
every new caller at his room is 10 troduced
by .ex-Assemblyman Low, of Passaic, to
whom the General has taken great shine,
and who enjoys the sport immensely as he
introduces one of the members" or ssthe
Senator from this or that county. lie
greets them with very low bow, offers
them little bug juice and o2e of his g So
fo'-ten cigars, tells them he in the race
not only to stay but to win, and he don't
propose to spend any money for it either,
and bows and scrapes them out again. g If
] can get it without money" he said en-
phaIically last Thursday night, s. don't
want it at ALL" The other night he got
very confidential to Lowe. and taking him
to one side said: Is Mr.. Lowe, you are
man for whom have the greatest respect,
and believe man of great ability. So
much do think of you, Mr.. Lowe, that if
you were about ten years older and about
ten years younger, / actually believe
would be tempted to withdraw in your
a,xa1r
ately, in order to avoid injury to the mans
feeling by laughing in his face.
The other deve lopment is, if possible,
more absolutely ludicrous than that con-
corning the poor swell head from South
Jersey. Like it, it is Senatorial bee and
it buzzes furiously in the bonnet of luxuri-
Gus Freddie Fish, who tries to preside over
the deliberations of the Senate, by virtue
of the eleven votes he received as Presi-
dent. freddie had the Gubernatorial bee
in his bonnet last fall and he managed to
get one of the 600 and odd delegates in the
convention TO vote for him. The way this
bee began to buzz is this: The Master
Workman of the Passaic county knights of
Labor has been down here several days,
engaged with the two labor men on labor
legislation. The first or second night after
his arrival he was introduced to Fish and
the two becaIae quite chums. Finally the
visitor told the Essex Senator that he could
control the two labor votes in the interest
of Fish for United States Senator and sug-
gested that that might be good stand
point from which to catch the thirty-eight
Republican votes and that of Baird, on the
ground that any Republican who could
demonstrate to his party caucus that he
could capture the labor votes should be
strong candidate. Fish nursed the bee for
twenty-four long hours, when it troubled
Kim SO that ne determined to unfold him
self to some one of his fellow Senators.
Even after his determination, he faltered,
but finally plucking up the courage he is said
to have gone to Senator Griggs, whom he
informed of the promises that had been
made to him of the labor votes, and said
that he believed that lie (Eish) could be
elected with little help. The whole
thing struck Griggs, it is reported, as SO
awfully comical that he could not refrain
from bursting out in fit OF laughter, FROM
the effects of which it took him some min
utes to recover Freddie, it is said, turned
on his heel like whipped dog. but as soon
as he got out of the august Passaic Sena-
tors sight, recovered his spirits and began
nursing his little boom in another quarter
again for all it is worth. which is not one
vote, probably. even if he were to pay
SIS 600 for IT, BUDs
Miss Evelyn Rouse Surprised,